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Since 2002, OzTREKK has helped send hundreds of Canadian students to Australia for professional degrees. Our mission is simple: To prepare students for a first-class international educational experience in Australia. We are experts in the Australian university education and we will assist you at every stage—from application to arrival—so that nothing is forgotten. OzTREKK is your Canadian connection to study in Australia!

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Monash University
has acknowledged the importance of the Monash Peninsula campus to the
future of the university and its broader role in the social, cultural
and economic growth of the Peninsula region with a new five-year plan
for the campus.

Monash University President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret
Gardner AO, said Monash Peninsula will become Australia’s leading centre
of allied health and primary care education and research, building on
the university’s existing strengths in emergency medicine,
physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing.

“Monash has committed more than $20 million towards new research,
staffing and facilities at Peninsula to set a new standard of excellence
in teaching, research and collaboration in allied health, primary care,
education and business,” Professor Gardner said.

As part of the plan, Monash will establish an integrated health and
education precinct in conjunction with Frankston Hospital, which
includes funding for a new edu…

Australia’s first national pet surveillance scheme VetCompass has been launched.

Initially set up in the United Kingdom by Sydney Veterinary School
Professor Paul McGreevy, VetCompass has now launched in Australia—in a
collaboration between all veterinary schools—to bring the benefits of
big data and epidemiology expertise to pets, with potential impacts on
human health and the environment.

Some of the most common ailments and causes of premature death in
companion animals are easily preventable—that’s a key finding of
VetCompass in the United Kingdom, which is now spawning its Australian
counterpart.

The not-for-profit project is a collaboration including the Royal
Veterinary College in the UK, the University of Sydney and now all veterinary schools in Australia, investigating companion animal health problems and identifying risk factors for common disorders in our favourite pets.

The bold and confident statement of Be Remarkable sums up a university on the move, ready and willing to take on some of the biggest challenges of modern life.

“Griffith is a relatively young university and yet in just four
decades we are recognised as performing among the top three per cent of
universities in the world,” Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor said.

“This performance is underpinned by our commitment to make a real
contribution to our local national and international communities.

“We produce remarkable graduates, armed with the skills and confidence to make their mark on the world.

“We conduct remarkable research that helps improve the lives of others near and far.

“And we are creating remarkable opportunities with our leading role
as the Official Partner of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.”

Meet first-year JCU Medical School
student Helena Xiang. OzTREKK first spoke with Helena in February 2014,
when she inquired about studying medicine in Australia. Still in high
school at the time, Helena was determined to stick to her plan of
applying to an undergraduate medical degree and begin her studies.

And so she did.

Application process: The starting point
Application processes can get difficult and tedious when you don’t
know what you’re doing. When I started my application, I didn’t really
know where to begin. Not much information was available on Australian
schools, and my high school counsellors sent me away to Google
everything myself. If you’re a student who’s thinking of applying to
JCU, the following might be worth a read:

Apply through an agent
I applied to James Cook University
through an agent. There are many agents out there that provide services
to Canadian students, but the one I personally got in touch with was
OzTREKK. These people were friendly, provi…

If you’re a future UQ
student and getting ready to study this November (or
January/February!), we know you’re wondering about your accommodation
options!

It’s also handy to know where you should be looking, right?
When considering suburb locations for off-campus accommodation, students
tend to have different preferences. Some prefer to live in the heart of
the city, while others prefer to live in other areas near specific
attractions, like the beach or bay.

Below is a list of popular suburbs located in the city of Brisbane:

St Lucia: St Lucia is a great place to live if you want the convenience of being close to UQ,
but the peace and quiet of the suburbs. It is located approximately 7
km from the centre of the city, in a bend of the Brisbane River. Most
properties in St Lucia are within walking distance to the UQ campus.
There is no train station located in St Lucia, but there are buses that
connect to the train station in nearby Toowong. There is also a bike
path that run…

Australia has 35 universities in the Times’ world top 800, making it the number five nation.

Overall, the top 20 in this year’s THE list is very similar to 2015,
with the top 20 mainly coming from the US, followed by the UK, with one
European inclusion, ETH Zurich, in ninth place.

Key performance indicators for THE Rankings
THE rankings performance indicators are grouped into five areas:Teaching (30%) – includes a reputation survey, and
measures staff-to-student ratio, doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio,
doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio, and institutional incomeResearch (30%) – includes a reputation survey, and measures research income and research productivityResearch citations (30%)International outlook (7.5%) – measures
international-to-domestic-student ratio, international-to-domestic-staff
ratio, and international collaborationIndustry income (2.5%) – measures how much research income an institution earns from industry against the number of academic staff it employs.
T…

The Sydney University Law Society (SULS) is the primary association for students studying at Sydney Law School,
and is officially associated with the Faculty of Law. The membership of
the society comprises all students in the Faculty of Law proceeding to a
degree or diploma (including undergraduate, postgraduate, and Juris
Doctor students).

As the largest and most active society at Sydney, SULS aims to enrich
the law student experience. SULS provides the law school community with
a variety of social events, educational support, mooting and skills
competitions, careers events, sporting functions, and initiatives that
inspire students to use the law as an instrument for social change.

The great news? All law students at the University of Sydney are automatically members of SULS!

Student Support Services
Ensuring that your experience at law school is a rewarding, safe, and
happy one is a major priority for SULS. Student welfare is at the core
of their agenda.

A University of Newcastle
animation student has been hand-picked from more than 900 international
entries to produce an animated film for children’s television network
Nickelodeon.

Dan Smith, a third-year Bachelor of Visual Communication Design student, will move to Melbourne to work with a prestigious animation studio to complete his short film, titled Blair and the Sea Pancake.

“I still can’t believe my work has been chosen. My film is about a
pair of loose-cannon larrikins, one human and the other a stingray, who
bumble through life together,” he said.

Mr Smith’s project is the result of his entry into the 2016
Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program earlier this year. Participants were
invited to develop a storyboard aimed at a young audience and nominate a
production studio they would like to work with to bring their idea to
fruition.

Mr Smith’s Melbourne-based collaborators remain a secret to the
outside world, but he revealed they are a company he had admired for
some ti…

Bond Law
students Lara Sveinsson and Marty Campbell made a stunning debut at the
2016 International Humanitarian Law moot when they defeated 14
universities from across Australia.

The International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot Competition is a
national mooting competition run jointly by the Australian Red Cross and
the Australian Law Students’ Association (ALSA) every year during the
ASLA’s annual conference. This year’s event was held in Hobart.

The purpose of the IHL Moot is to assist Australian university
students in understanding and appreciating the growing importance of
international humanitarian law, its nature as a system of protection
during times of armed conflict and its role as fundamental part of
international law.

The talented Bondies went head to head with a team of very strong
opponents from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the final but
managed to secure victory, having gained a confidence boost early on in
the competition when they progressed a…

A new range of career-focused initiatives will give Griffith University graduates a sharp competitive edge to improve their job prospects.

Griffith aims to include real-life industry experiences in all its degrees and programs.

Its students also have access to an e-mentoring program, a
high-quality ePortfolio platform. Griffith is the first Australian
university to operate a franchise of Unitemps—a recruitment service
providing paid work opportunities for students.

These employability enhancing services have proved invaluable for recent mechanical engineering
graduate Sebastian Speak, who has been employed full-time by Scout
Aerial to design a drone launcher for an anti-poaching device, which
will be used in Africa.

“I designed one launcher as part of a twelve-week internship and now
I’m making thirty ready to be used in Africa to specifically target the
illegal poaching of rhinoceros and elephants,” he said.

As the gatekeepers of the interface between humans and animals, veterinarians have many roles.

While the local “pet vet,” who vaccinates and treats beloved “Fido”
may be the most recognisable, veterinary practice in Australia and
Canada encompasses much more diverse fields, including small and large
animal practice, emergency medicine, animal production, public health
and disease control, quarantine and biosecurity, research and education,
pharmaceuticals and commercialisation, animal welfare and therapeutic
treatments, and wildlife conservation.

Over the last decade, the veterinary profession
has progressively shifted its focus to a more holistic and integrated
approach, which links animal, human and ecosystem health to promote all
components through interdisciplinary cooperation.

Concepts of One Health have gathered momentum from an initial focus
on understanding and controlling significant recent emerging infectious
diseases (EIDs) such as Ebola, avian influenza, and Hen…

If you are considering studying medicine, dentistry, law,
pharmacy, physiotherapy or other professional degrees, and aren’t sure
how to make it all work for you, come to one of our upcoming Study in
Australia Fairs!
Beginning tomorrow at Simon Fraser University, OzTREKK and our
Australian university partners will be travelling across Canada to help
students learn more about their study options! Join us at an OzTREKK Fall Study in Australia Fair—and find out how you can make your career dreams come true!

Former OzTREKK students are da bomb. They are always willing to help out future students interested in studying in Australia.
Of course, finding accommodation is always at the forefront of
everyone’s mind, keenly perched there and peering acutely like an
excitable budgie.

You will be travelling around to the other side of the planet, after all, so we know th
at finding accommodation is a big deal. We’ve complied a quick checklist to help you out!

Staying on campus?
Visit your uni’s accommodation website and read… and read so more.
Get a feel for what the residence or college is about. Most have
international houses for out-of-towners like you! Some also have “Party
Central.” Wuh wuh. Don’t choose that one. You’re there to be brilliant,
not to be bombed.

Connect
Connect with your future classmates and current students in the
program as early as possible in advance to find potential roommates and
discuss your options together, as this will give you more confidence
with your liv…

If you’re planning to attend the Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours
program at the University of Queensland, then you already know you’ll be
studying with the industry’s best.

Meet UQ School of Pharmacy
lecturer Jacqueline Bond, whose passionate and innovative approach to
education has led to curricular reform that inspires students and
prepares them for future roles as “medicines experts.”

You have been recognised as an excellent educator since
joining UQ’s School of Pharmacy in 2001. Why did you decide to move into
teaching after more than a decade working in government and industry in
Australia, and at a university research centre overseas?

I have had a most non-linear career trajectory, beginning my
professional life as an industrial chemist. Prior to graduating, I
worked for two summers at an oil refinery and loved every minute of
being on-site.

After graduating, I moved on to quality control, research and
development (R&D) and formulation roles in other industries. I wa…

You have all heard, “If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?”

We’d like to take it up a notch and query, “If you could study
anything in the world, what would you study?” Since we represent such
amazing Australian universities, our selection is almost endless! Here
are the OzTREKK office results if we were to study in Australia!

Adam
I would love to undertake a PhD in Mongolian studies at a great university like the University of Sydney.
I’m basically obsessed with Genghis Khan, the social dynamics he
emerged from, and misunderstandings about how his legacy shaped the
world we live in.

Amanda
I would like to study nutrition in a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics program at Griffith University.
I feel Australia naturally focuses on healthy living and wellness, with
nutrition and its awesome food culture playing a big role in people’s
lives. I’d like to learn the science side of things—anatomy,
endocrinology, chemistry etc., then apply a holistic focus…

Dr Caitlin Brandenburg’s award-winning research is certainly something to get people talking.
The UQ speech pathology
pioneer will soon begin testing a second version of CommFit, an
app-connected device that encourages stroke survivors to speak more
frequently.

“By measuring vibration through the collarbone using an
accelerometer, we can tell how much the wearer has talked throughout the
day,” Dr Brandenburg said.

“It’s essentially a language pedometer that is paired with
personalised tasks to assist people to get better at conversation, and
also more involved and engaged with their community.

“The idea is based on principles of neuroplasticity, being that as
the brain repairs after damage you want to repeatedly practise the
skills you want to improve.

The Griffith Medical School is known for its innovation and
excellence in medical research and education. Griffith MD students will
develop communication skills and learn about the art and science of
medicine in its wider social and ethical context. The program comprises
extensive clinical placements in health care facilities ranging from
rural settings through to the brand new Gold Coast University Hospital.

And, guess what? Griffith offers scholarships for both the Doctor of Medicine and the Bachelor of Medical Science/Doctor of Medicine programs!

Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) Graduate Entry Scholarship in MedicineFor: High-achieving graduates applying for the Doctor of Medicine program at Griffith UniversityAvailable to: New students commencing in Trimester 1 2017Level of study: PostgraduateCitizenship: Citizen of a country other than Australia or New ZealandAward value and benefits: $20,000 in total (four tuition payments of $5000 e…

A degree in occupational therapy
provides a breadth of employment opportunities: working with
individuals, small groups, organisations or communities. Occupational
therapists work in many settings including hospitals, rehabilitation,
private practice, community health, early intervention, social services,
schools, government agencies, industrial and commercial organisations,
mental health services, homes, and supported housing. After gaining
relevant workplace experience further career opportunities exist in
education, management and research.

The Master of Occupational Therapy Practice program at Monash University
is a full-time course over two years from July to May (mid-year
intake). It will operate over 72 weeks and include 1000 hours of
fieldwork education commensurate with World Federation of Occupational
Therapists (WFOT) Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational
Therapists (2002).

Monash University strives to develop OT graduates who areoccupation-focuse…

QS World University Rankings 2016/17 has just released the latest world university rankings, and four of OzTREKK’s Australian universities
were out to represent and held strong in the top 100. In fact, they are
all within the top 470, and considering there are more than 10,000
universities around the world, this is a big deal!

University of Melbourne at #42University of Sydney at #46University of Queensland at #51Monash University at #65
Once again, the University of Melbourne
holds strong near the top of the list, closely followed by the Sydney
and the UQ. In fact, all of our Australian university partners fared
well, and we are proud to represent them.

The University of Sydney
has again been named in the top 50 universities in the world, with a
formal ranking of 46 in the latest QS World University Rankings.
Sydney’s result confirms its place among the world’s leading research
and educational institutions. It also underscores the univ…

OzTREKK is a Canadian application and information centre for students considering studying at select Australian
universities. We’re a Canadian company based in Perth, Ontario, midway
between Ottawa and Toronto.

We offer a wide range of services, and it’s all free for you—we’re paid
by the Australian universities, because they recognize that we’re
experts in matching what they offer with what Canadian students need. In
fact, OzTREKK is the only representative in Canada operated by
Australians and Canadians and specializing solely in Australian universities.

If you apply to an Australian university through OzTREKK, you’ll benefit
from insider knowledge, save time researching, and get all your
questions answered. It’s that simple. Find out how you can study in Australia!